- Source: Sudhanoti District
Sudhanoti (Urdu: سدھنوتی ) meaning the "heartland of Sudhans" or "Sudhan heartland"), is one of the 10 districts of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. The Sudhanoti District is bounded on the north and east by the Poonch District, on the south by the Kotli District, and on the west by the Rawalpindi District of Pakistan's Punjab Province. It is located 90 kilometres (56 mi) from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. It is connected with Rawalpindi and Islamabad via the Azad Pattan Road.
The district headquarters is the town of Pallandri. It lies at an elevation of 1,372 meters and is at a distance of 97 kilometers from Rawalpindi via the Azad Pattan Road. Pallandri is connected to Rawalakot by a 64-km metalled road.
Administrative divisions
The Sudhanoti District is divided into four tehsils:
Baloch Tehsil
Mang Tehsil
Pallandri Tehsil
Trarkhel Tehsil
Population
The district is overwhelmingly dominated by the Sudhans, and the population of Sudhanoti was recorded as 297,584 in the 2017 Census.
The main native language is Pahari, spoken by an estimated 95% of the population.
Education
According to the Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2017, Sudhanoti is ranked 34 out of 155 districts with a score of 68.85 in terms of education. For facilities and infrastructure, the district is ranked last with the very low score of 6.76.
Educational institutes include:
Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST) Pallandri campus, Sudhanoti District
Mohi-ud-Din Islamic University Nerian Sharif, a chartered university situated 125 km west of Islamabad
University of Poonch (SM campus, Mang, Sudhanoti District)
Notable people
Kiran Imran Dar, Member National Assembly (MNA) Pakistan
Aziz Khan, General of the Pakistan Army and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
Khan Muhammad Khan, Politician and the Chairman of the War Council during the 1947 Poonch Rebellion
Dr. Muhammad Najeeb Naqi Khan, Minister for Health and Finance. He was elected as a member of the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly five times (in 1991, 1996, 2006, 2011, and 2016) from the Pallandri constituency and was a member of the Kashmir Council from 2001 to 2006.
Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui was a great Islamic Sufi Scholar and 2nd custodian of Nerian Sharif, Tarar Khel. He died on 3 February 2017.
See also
Balouch, Azad Kashmir
References
External links
Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir travel guide from Wikivoyage
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- Sudhanoti District
- Kotli District
- Poonch District, Pakistan
- Sudhan
- Bhan
- Poonch District, India
- Poonch Division
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- Aziz Khan (general)
- Nerian Sharif
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